In this study a novel alginate‐g‐poly(acrylic acid)/alumina composite was synthesized and characterized. Preparation of the composite hydrogels involved free radical polymerization of a combination of alginate, acrylic acid (AA) and distilled water, in appropriate amounts and N,N‐methylene bisacrylamide (MBA) as crosslinking agent. The composite formation was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic (FT‐IR). The surface morphologies of the synthesized hydrogels were assessed by scanning electron microscopy. Systematically, the different variables of the graft copolymerization were optimized to achieve maximum swelling capacity. The swelling of superabsorbent hydrogels was measured in various solutions with pH values ranging from 0 to 14. In addition, the pH reversibility, on–off switching behavior, swelling kinetics in distilled water and the absorbency under load (AUL) were investigated.
Materials derived from the anionic polymerization of a silene or a germene have a regular, alternating structure without any significant rearrangement taking place during polymerization.
A variety of alkyllithium (R = Me, Bu, t-Bu) reagents and potassium tert-butoxide were added to the highly reactive silene Mes 2 SiCHCH 2 t-Bu (1) and the germene Mes 2 GeCHCH 2 t-Bu (4) in diethyl ether. 1,2-Addition products were obtained regioselectively and in good yield after treatment with a weak acid with no evidence for any rearrangement products and no polymerization observed. The reactivity of the silene 1 and germene 4 toward organometallic reagents is compared to previous studies of analogous silenes and germenes.
The addition of secondary phosphine oxides to tetramesityldisilene and -digermene results in the mild, partial reduction of the P(V) centre of the organophosphorus oxide to P(III) to yield disilyl and digermyl phosphinite derivatives and illustrates the potential of ditetrelenes to serve as mild reducing agents under ambient conditions. An analogous reaction happens with <i>H</i>-phosphonates. Mechanistic experiments, including deuterium-labelling, kinetic isotope effect (KIE) and variable time normalization analysis (VTNA) experiments, reveal that the 1,3-PH addition likely proceeds through a stepwise reaction pathway with the organophosphorus oxide acting as the nucleophile towards the ditetrelene. Furthermore, a facile exchange between the R<sub>2</sub>PO- moiety on the digermylphosphinite with the R<sub>2</sub>PO moiety of phosphine oxides was discovered and likely proceeds through a direct substitution mechanism.
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